Bung-extractor.



No@ 730,727. 'PATBNTED JAN. 24, 1905;

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APPLICATION FILED 001.222.1903.

3 vwamtoz wmmm V Maul? Q v W UNI E STATES Patented January. 24, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS PENDERGAST, or LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNoR OF FIFTY-ONE ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO JOHN HERTZLER, or LANCASTER,

PENNSYLVANIA.

BUNG-E IXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 780,727, dated January 24, 1905.

Application filed October 22 1903- Serial No. 178,097.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, THOMAS PENDERGAST, a-

citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bung-Extractors and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and-exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention consists of a simple, convenient, and efficient tool for use in breweries, liquor warehouses and stores, particularly for extracting bungs or plugs from liquor casks or barrels, though it is also adapted for other purposes, such as forcing the stoppers or corks through the bungs when the casks are empty.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as apart of this specification, I have represented a preferred form of my improved device, illustrating, in

Figure 1, an application thereof to the extraction of one well-known form of bung, and

in Fig. 2 an application to another well-known form of bung.

The device shown consists of a stock or shank in the form of a pry or lever having at one end .two oppositely or differently projecting prongs or pry-points adapted for extracting different kinds of bungs and either one of which may serve as a support or fulcrum for prying out a hung or plug with the other prong.

The shank is indicated in the drawings by the reference-numeral 1, and the prongs or pry-points by the numerals 2 and 3, It-will be observed that the pronged end or neck of the shank curves slightly downward or out of the general line of its length and the two curved prongs divide or extend oppositely therefrom in such manner or shape that one prong, 2, lies substantially in the'general line of the length of the shank and the other prong,

3, projects laterally or approximately at right angles, while the extremities of the prongs are pointed oppositely or curved backward with respect to each other. However, by lengthening the said neck or curved part of accordingly changed. The prong 3 is especially suitable for prying out the ordinary larger-sized bungs or plugs havingsmall central openings, such as are used in the sides of casks, as represented in Fig. 1. The prong is simply inserted down into the hole of the bung or plug, and the shank or pry is raised, so that the prong which hooks under or engages the bung will extract it. The prong 2 is especially adapted for extracting the smallersizedbungs having larger openings, such as are used in the heads or ends of casks, as represented in Fig. 2. The prong is inserted down into the hole of the bung, so as to engage its .under side, and pryed out by bearing down on the shank or pry. In either case the bung may also be extracted, if desired, without breaking the usual frangible diaphragm the shank the location of the prongs would be or core in the center by simply engaging the serve as a fulcrum or support for prying out the bung or plug with the other prong, and as the extremities of the prongs curve oppositely or backwardly the prong'which serves as the fulcrum will not stick in or deface the wood. The prongs may of course be put to other usessuch, for example, as extracting or prying out the corks or stoppers from the bungs.

The stock or shank is shown in the form of a flat bar, which is the preferred construction for strength combined with lightness of weight, though of course not essential. The free end of the shank is preferably formed round, or substantially so, as shown, for the purpose of serving as a convenient handle for the tool, and said round portion may be used as a hammer or ram for forcing the cork's or stoppers into the empty kegs or casks.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described bung-extractor conplane of the shank and the said neck and prong adapted to serve as a fulcrum for pry- 1O prongs substantially in the form of a fish-tail, ing out With the other. the prong 2 extending from the neck in the In testimony whereof I afiix my signaturc in general line of length of the shank and slightly presence of two Witnesses.

5 up-curved and adapted to be inserted into small-sized bushings, and the prong 8 extend- THOMAS PENDERGAST ing laterally from the base of the neck and Witnesses: slightly back-curved and adapted to be in- REDMOND (JONYNGIIAM,

serted into large-sized bushings, and each J. FRANK REMLEY. 

